News Summary

• After rape allegations on Married At First Sight UK, there has been a growing conversation about how welfare is administered on major reality shows.
• In this guest column, former welfare producer Emma Pringle reflects on her experiences from the front line of contributor safeguarding.
• It has been almost six months since I walked away from my career as a freelance series welfare producer.
• Not because I had lost my passion for television, but because of the emotional weight that comes with working at the sharp end of contributor welfare.
• The pressure had become relentless, the boundaries increasingly blurred, and the cost to my own wellbeing impossible to ignore.
• For the first time in my career, I found myself asking a question I never thought I would ask: Was television still an industry I wanted to be part of?